curvet vs whop

curvet

verb
  • (of an object) To jump, skip, shake. 

  • (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic. 

  • To fly or swim with darting movements. 

  • Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic. 

  • To cause to leap about, dart or jump. 

noun
  • A prank; a frolic. 

  • A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once. 

whop

verb
  • To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact. 

  • To administer corporal punishment 

noun
  • A blow or strike. 

How often have the words curvet and whop occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )